[kachapopopow]

it's already there and fully supported and accelerated by switches and connected hardware, switches like juniper do have licensing fees to use such features, but a company like AWS can surely work around these licensing costs and build an in-house solution.

[re-thc]

> it's already there

So it should be free? The bank already has "money". It's already there so you can take it?

That's not how it works.

Do you not get a managed service where someone upgrades it, deals with outages etc? Are those people that work 24/7 free or is it another "already there"?

[kachapopopow]

fair point, but the pricing of NATs is so low that it would actually take more effort to create billing for it than to just have it be free, it's clearly a choice to maximize profits for every single resource regardless of complexity or cost - that is my problem.

And there are things that come for free when you have instrastructure this big and expansive - one-time configuration and you either monetize it or pass down the savings and since every cloud service is in agreement that profits should be maximized you end up with cloud providers which have massive datacenters at very cheap cost due to economies of scale providing it at a value far exceeding normal hosting practices due to their ability to monopolize and spend vasts amount of money onboarding businesses with false promises which errodes the infrastructure for non-cloud solutions and makes cloud providers the only choice for any business as the talent and software ends up going into maintenance mode and/or turns towards higher profitability to keep themselves afloat.